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Thinking about adding SiriusXM Satellite Radio to your car or truck? In this article, we'll take a look at two of SiriusXM'south best tuners, the SiriusXM SXV300V1 and the SiriusXM SXWB1V1 TOUR.

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More and more than cars are rolling out of the factory with satellite radio built-in, but if yours doesn't have it and yous want information technology, SiriusXM has a tuner that's right for you and your machine. If you're still in the "Gee, Idunno?" stage of the decision-making process, here's just a few of the reasons you really practice want to add together SiriusXM satellite radio to your machine:

An unparalleled diversity of music choices: You'll get multiple music channels, including rock, pop, state, hip-hop, R&B, electronic, jazz, classical, Latin, world, and Christian channels.
An amazing array of news and talk: If it'southward worth talking near, someone's talking about information technology on SiriusXM's wide variety of national news, sports, talk, and entertainment channels.
Up-to-the-infinitesimal traffic and weather: In select metropolitan markets, you can find out what the conditions are and plan your road appropriately.
Sports: If y'all're a sports fanatic, you really demand SiriusXM. Whether yous're into baseball game, basketball, football, hockey, racing, and/or soccer, you'll never miss a large outcome.
No annoying ads: Nigh music channels on SiriusXM are commercial-free.
Crystal-articulate signals: SiriusXM's digital signal means no static or interference and the ability to transmit text information like stock quotes and sports scores alongside musical signals.
Declension-to-coast coverage: satellite radio is bachelor across the continental 48 states, plus parts of Alaska and Puerto Rico. You can fifty-fifty get a signal upward to 200 miles offshore, so if you're a gunkhole owner, there's another reason to become into SiriusXM.

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What kind of tuner is right for your car?

If you lot already accept a compatible aftermarket stereo or you're planning to install one, the SiriusXM SXV300V1 tuner is the 1 to cull. Just if you can't (or just don't want to) supplant the stock radio, y'all'll desire a dock-and-play choice, similar the SiriusXM SXWB1V1 TOUR with 360L. We'll have a closer await at each one below.

SiriusXM SXV300V1 Tuner

The SiriusXM SXV300V1 fits backside your vehicle'due south dash, so you'll become great programming and a clean look.

Add together SiriusXM to your aftermarket stereo

When you connect a SiriusXM SXV300V1 to whatsoever of the many SiriusXM-Gear up™ aftermarket motorcar stereos currently available, all that awesome entertainment volition audio better than ever in your car or truck.

This compact tuner fits behind your car'south dash and plugs into your SiriusXM-Set up™ motorcar stereo without the need for boosted cables or interfaces. It comes in a consummate package that contains the hideaway tuner, an exterior antenna (with a magnetic base for piece of cake mounting), and an installation guide.

With select car stereos (encounter note below), you can access some corking new SiriusXM features, like Traffic & Weather condition Now, SportsFlash™, and TuneMix™ which plays a unique alloy of songs called from channels you've stored every bit presets. The best office is that if y'all don't want to hear a particular song right now, y'all tin can skip over it.

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Expect for the "SiriusXM-Ready" logo on receivers like this Kenwood

If y'all have an older receiver that's SiriusXM-compatible, you won't become those newer features, but you'll still get all the SiriusXM music, amusement, news, and sports programming you honey, plus cool features like Replay and iTunes® vocal tagging. And you'll be able to savour the new features whenever y'all upgrade your receiver.

Depending on your subscription package, you'll go SiriusXM's Xtra Channels with the SXV300V1. That's over twenty additional music, sports, entertainment, plus SiriusXM Latino, a drove of defended Spanish-language channels. Inquire your Crutchfield advisor for more than details.

Factory Radios and Other Notes: The SXV300V1 connects direct with aftermarket in-nuance receivers that accept a "SiriusXM-Set™" logo.

With the help of a Vais Engineering science adapter, you can add SiriusXM satellite radio to a wide variety of factory radios. Enter your vehicle info or talk to a Crutchfield Counselor to see if in that location'southward i bachelor for your auto or truck.

You'll also need to purchase a subscription from SiriusXM. Satellite radio service is available simply within the lower 48 states — non available in Hawaii or U.S. territories. Express service is available in Alaska.

A special bundle for boats and RVs

Want to bring SiriusXM programming to your gunkhole or RV? The SiriusXM SXV300M package includes the satellite radio tuner, plus a marine-prepare Shakespeare antenna, a 25-foot antenna cable, and three antenna mounting options — surface, low profile with base, and pedestal.

Our best dock-and-play SiriusXM satellite radio

If you have an older motorcar, a leased auto, a car with a seriously integrated nuance, or you simply don't desire to supplant the stock stereo, you don't have to settle for second-charge per unit entertainment. The SiriusXM SXWB1V1 TOUR with 360L lets you add SiriusXM when yous thought you were stuck with AM and FM.

SiriusXM SXWB1V1 TOUR with 360L

The SiriusXM SXWB1V1 Tour is a great selection when replacing the stock radio isn't possible

The SXWB1V1 Tour offers tons of cool features, including congenital-in Bluetooth® connectivity, WiFi, and voice control. With Personalized Stations Powered past Pandora, you lot can create your ain artist stations and go recommendations curated just for yous based on your listening history.

There's an on-demand feature that lets you lot admission recorded shows, live performances, interviews, and events, and if you lot're a sports fan, you can become real-fourth dimension updates on all your favorite teams. You can view all the programme and aqueduct information on the 4.3" touchscreen color display, along with great graphics like channel logos and album fine art.

The congenital-in Bluetooth makes it easy to connect to your radio, habitation audio system, or a Bluetooth speaker, but you'll also get the accessories you'll need for installation in your car. The vehicle kit inclides a vehicle dock and antenna, nuance and vent mounts, and a cable to connect to your machine radio's auxiliary input.

If your car's radio doesn't have an aux input, the included SiriusXM PowerConnect™ arrangement will deliver articulate sound through your vehicle's FM radio. If you lot have an older machine, the Tour will work with a cassette adapter (not included).

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When the mill radio is well-nigh incommunicable to supervene upon (like this i from an Acura TL), the SiriusXM SXWB1V1 Tour is a groovy solution. (Crutchfield Research Photo)

Want to learn more?

Not sure which of these tuners is right for you? Cheque out our full selection of dock-and-play satellite radios. To learn more about SiriusXM satellite radio, check out our other satellite radio articles and videos.

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